Tag: drug use

Becoming Vancouver: the ‘definitive history’ leaves room for further insights

by Flyn Ritchie • April 24, 2024 • 3 Comments

Daniel Francis: Becoming Vancouver: A History (Harbour Publishing, 2021) I should have written this long ago – but fortunately everything in this book is old news anyway. And they say you can learn from history. For example, it may soon…

‘Damascus Road experience’ transformed views on how to respond to opioid crisis

by Flyn Ritchie • June 2, 2022 • 3 Comments

Adults will be allowed to possess up to 2.5 grams of opioids, cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA in British Columbia by early next year. That major shift in Canada’s drug policy was announced May 31 by Federal Minister of Mental Health…